Y Le Parfum
Y Le Parfum by Yves Saint Laurent is a masculine-leaning parfum from 2021 in the designer price tier. It opens with ginger, bergamot and lavender, moves into sage and geranium and dries down to tonka bean, cedarwood and amber. Expect around 10 hours of wear, and it projects strongly.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Ginger Warm, zesty and slightly soapy. Bridges citrus and spice.
- Bergamot Sharp citrus with a faint bitter edge. The opening of about half of all men's fragrances.
- Lavender Herbal, clean, slightly medicinal. Barbershop in one note.
Heart
- Sage Dry, herbal and slightly bitter. Adds a grown-up, aromatic edge.
- Geranium Rosy and minty at once. Reads masculine more often than not.
Dry-down
- Tonka Bean Almond, hay and vanilla in one. Warm and slightly nutty.
- Cedarwood Dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. Clean and structural.
- Amber Warm, golden and resinous. Not a real material — a blend that glows.
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